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In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
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I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.
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A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.
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Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
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Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
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It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.
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A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.
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The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.
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The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.
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A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.
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The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.
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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.
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I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.
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A weak man has doubts before a decision a strong man has them afterwards.
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In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
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A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.
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The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.
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